TEHRAN (FNA)- An Israeli military judge on Wednesday ordered a Palestinian teenager arrested after a viral video showed her hitting two Israeli soldiers held in custody until trial.

“I found no alternative other than to order her detention in custody until the end of proceedings,” the judge ruled, World News reported.

“The gravity of the offences of which she is accused do not allow an alternative to custody,” the judge said.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Tuesday expressed deep concern at the almost one month long pre-trial detention of the Palestinian child.

“The Convention on the Rights of the Child is clear”, James Heenan, head of OHCHR’s office in the occupied Palestinian territory, said, adding that “deprivation of liberty of children shall only be used as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time, and the best interests of the child are to be a primary consideration”.

OHCHR stressed that “as a child, she is entitled to all fair trial rights guaranteed under international law, in addition to the special protection granted to children in contact with the law.”

International standards require that children should be deprived of their liberty only if they pose an imminent threat to themselves or to others, and all other means have been exhausted, or as a precaution against escape during transfer, but in all cases, only for as long as is strictly necessary, OHCHR said.

“The circumstances of the girl’s arrest are deeply worrisome: in the middle of the night by heavily armed soldiers followed by an interrogation without the presence of a relative or a lawyer in disregard of international standards,” Heenan added.

“The fact that the child is detained outside the occupied Palestinian territory is itself in contravention of international humanitarian law,” OHCHR stressed.

It noted that aspects of the treatment of this child mirror the treatment of hundreds of other Palestinian children arrested and detained by Israeli Security Forces across the occupied territory, as the High Commissioner, the Secretary-General and UNICEF have reported over the years.

“This case is in many ways emblematic of the way in which Palestinian children experience the military justice system in the occupied West Bank and the Israeli justice system in East Jerusalem” he said.

“We urge Israel to ensure that the treatment of Ahed Tamimi is in accordance with international law and the special protection she is granted as a child. In particular we question her continued pre-trial detention” Heenan added.

UN has voiced concern over the detention of al-Tamimi, as UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric stressed that "What is clear is that people need to have their rights respected. The detention of children is our particular concern and we have made those concerns known."

Israeli authorities sought 12 charges against the prominent 16-year-old Palestinian activist filmed slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.

During a hearing at Israel's Ofer military court near Ramallah, Ahed was charged with 12 counts, including allegedly assaulting an Israeli soldier, interfering with a soldier's duties and two past instances of stone-throwing, according to her lawyer Gabi Laski.

Laski said Nariman was charged with alleged "incitement" for uploading the video on social media, as well as another charge of assault, adding that Ahed and Nariman's charges include older alleged incidents unrelated to the video.

Nour was charged with allegedly assaulting a soldier and interfering with a soldier's duties, Laski underlined, stressing that owing to the charges against Ahed, "there's a possibility of her facing a lot of time".

She noted that Palestinian teenagers typically face about six to nine months in prison for charges of stone-throwing.

Ahed's father, Bassem, said it was very likely his daughter would be sentenced and imprisoned over the charges.

"They built the case around her specifically to try to keep her in prison as long as they can," he stressed.

"I am very worried about my daughter," Bassem added, who has also been arrested numerous times by Israeli forces.

"Her fate is now in the hands of people who don't even see Palestinians as full human beings," he underscored.

Bassem said Israel is attempting to "break Ahed because she is a symbol of the resistance", adding that "Israel wants to show other young Palestinians what will happen to them if they try to resist,".

Ahed, 16, was arrested by Israeli forces during a predawn raid on her home last week in the village of Nabi Saleh, located in the central occupied West Bank.

Tamimi’s cousin Nour was also arrested. Her mother Nariman Tamimi was detained as well, when she went to the police station where her daughter was being held.

She became the latest face of Palestinian resistance when footage emerged of her slapping one and then another fully-armed Israeli officer in the face during a protest in her home village of Nabi Saleh, near the Palestinian city of Ramallah.

Ahed, whose family is well-known internationally for their activism against the Israeli occupation, was arrested over a video that went viral on social media of her slapping an armed Israeli officer during a raid on Nabi Saleh.

She is well-known across Palestine and the Arab world for videos of her, since her childhood, defiantly resisting Israeli soldiers who clash with Palestinians in her village nearly every week.

An Israeli soldier shot Ahed Tamimi’s brother Mohammad, 14, in the head during a demonstration in late December. He has been released from the hospital after undergoing surgery and a medically induced coma.

The Tamimis have long been targeted for their activism. In 2011, an Israeli soldier fired a tear gas canister from closer range at Mustafa Tamimi, killing him.

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